Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules

2016-12-08 Thread Freeman Ng
No, it's because the bots' mc based algorithms currently don't care how much they win by. (At least I'm assuming that's what Ingo meant.) They just try to maximize their odds of winning. I've often wondered about this, though, and maybe the bot developers here can give me an answer. There's no rea

Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules

2016-12-08 Thread Marc Landgraf
Well, the system i identical to that besides: - there are 19 bonus points for winning (I really like that one...) - it is capped at +40 an -40 But I do not think it is too interesting for bots right now mostly due to lack of similar strengths bots. And while the GtI tourney does equalize this with

Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules

2016-12-08 Thread Lukas van de Wiel
So why not add the amount of points equal to your score? You win by 16.5 points? You get 16.5 points. You lose by 4.5. You lose 4.5 points. At the end of the tournament, there will be contestants with a negative score, but it seems a more straightforward system to me, and the players losing only by

Re: [Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules

2016-12-08 Thread Erik van der Werf
On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 10:58 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de> wrote: > Playing under such conditions might be a challenge for the bots Why? Do you think the humans will collude? ;-) Erik. ___ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.o

[Computer-go] Go Tournament with hinteresting rules

2016-12-08 Thread Ingo Althöfer
Hi, this is info on a human-human go tournament, but with interesting scoring. Wins by 40 or more points (or by resignation) give score 100, Win by 39 gives score 99 Win by 38 gives score 98 ... Win by 1 gives score 60. Loss by 40 or more gives score 0, Loss by 39 gives score 1 ... Loss by 1 gives